Explore Good Morning quotations through beginning again, attention to the day ahead, energy without forced cheerfulness. Compare how different writers frame the idea across distinct works and periods.
“Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.”
Morning becomes a metaphor for inward wakefulness: a person is fully awake when attention and possibility begin again.
Walden, chapter “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
The absurd boast celebrates imaginative flexibility and the ability to entertain possibilities before demanding immediate proof.
Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter V, “Wool and Water,” printed page 100 / scan leaf 120 in the fully validated 1872 Macmillan first-edition witness on Wikisource. The White Queen tells Alice that with enough practice she sometimes believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. This collection retains its 1871 source-year convention while the evidence witness is title-dated 1872; this remains fictional nonsense-logic rather than Lewis Carroll’s literal theory of belief or instruction to accept impossible claims.
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